W&M将在四月举办内战签名会议
The Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, in conjunction with William & Mary, will host “The American Civil War at Home” on April 20, 2013. There will be two panel discussions featuring some of the nation’s most prominent Civil War experts.
The program, the fifth in a series of seven conferences sponsored by the Commonwealth’s American Civil War Commission, is open to the public. To register, go to www.virginiacivilwar.org or phone (804) 786-3591. 会议是15美元； 会议和午餐费用为25美元。
Convened by W&M professors 斯科特·雷诺兹·纳尔逊 and 卡罗尔警长, historians of 19th-century America, the conference will focus on two main topics: the limits of emancipation and internal dissent in the Confederacy and the Union.
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of 历史 at Columbia University, will open the conference with a presentation on his book, “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery,” which won Pulitzer, Bancroft and Lincoln prizes.
互动节目将从不同的角度展示历史学家。 The panelists for session one, “Emancipation and Its Limits,” are recognized educators, authors and scholars of emancipation, the American South and the Civil War.
杜克大学的Thavolia Glymph
An associate professor of history and African and African American studies, she teaches courses on slavery, the U.S. South, emancipation, reconstruction and African-American women’s history. She is the author of “Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household” and a co-editor of two volumes of “Freedom: A Documentary 历史 of Emancipation, 1861-1867.” She is currently completing “Women at War,” a study of women in the Civil War.
罗伯特·f·恩格斯，宾夕法尼亚大学
His primary teaching areas at both the graduate and undergraduate levels are: 
African-American history, U.S. Civil War and reconstruction and history of the U.S. South. 恩格斯的研究重点是战后时代，特别是自由人和南方白人对解放的反应。 His first two books, “Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Va., 1861-1890” and “Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited; Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893” reflect that focus.
Stephen Kantrowitz，佳博体育
His research and teaching center on the ways Americans understood and experienced slavery and emancipation, in particular, issues of political activity, racial ideology and racial conflict, and the ways politics and race have been gendered. After a decade of research, he produced "Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy." His most recent book is "More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889."
The panelists for session two, “Internal Dissent in the Confederacy and the Union,” are renowned educators, authors and scholars of the American Civil War home front, North and South.
Stephanie McCurry，宾夕法尼亚大学
麦柯里专门研究19世纪美国历史，重点关注美国南部和南北战争时期以及妇女和性别的历史。 McCurry is the author of “Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country,” which received the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association. Her latest book, “Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South,” was published in 2010.
Stephen Ash，田纳西大学
阿什的大部分研究都是关于内战和重建的。 在他的众多著作中，有《南方内战中的黑人经历》、《自由的火焰：改变内战进程的两个黑人团的故事》和《南方的一年：1865：四个普通人经历美国历史上最动荡的十二个月的真实故事》。
Matthew Gallman，佛罗里达大学
他在洛约拉学院、葛底斯堡学院和西方学院任教后，于2003年加入佛罗里达大学历史系。 他的著作包括《掌握战争：内战期间费城的社会史》和《北方打内战：大后方》。 他目前正在研究内战期间北方的政治修辞和讽刺。
弗吉尼亚州美国内战委员会成立于2006年，由大会成立，负责策划弗吉尼亚州内战和解放150周年纪念活动。 委员会的项目和活动旨在为所有弗吉尼亚人提供便利，并为子孙后代保留遗产。 该委员会由弗吉尼亚州众议院议长威廉·j·豪厄尔领导。